Thursday, January 28, 2016

A Precious Moments Anniversary Card

I made this lovely anniversary card using a free Precious Moments digital image that I found on-line many years ago. I saved the image to my computer, but it might still be available if you try searching for it.

This card is an example of the many free outline images there are available on-line. I've already shown you a card made with a Charlie Brown free digi HERE.

Many people do not have the money to spend on stamps or maybe they do not make a lot of cards so they don't want to invest in stamps. There are many, many, free digital images available on the web. Just be sure when your taking an image off the Internet it does say FREE on it, otherwise your stealing! Also, when using famous character images like Precious Moments or Charlie Brown, be aware that those images have copy rights. Meaning, you can use the image for your own personal use, but you can't make a card with the image and then sell it on Etsy!

This was a HUGE image, so there was not much space left for a sentiment or any embellishments; so I just colored the card using the typical Precious Moments color palette.

Because of the lack of space leftover on the card, I stamped my sentiment onto a piece of vellum and cut out a banner with an MFT die. A little pink butterfly cut with a Cuttlebug Die was attached to hide the drop of glue used to adhere the vellum banner to the card stock.

I chose pastel colored card stock to match the pastel colors in the image. I used a corner rounder to round the corners of the white and baby blue card stock, then I adhered everything to a pink card stock base.

Hello everyone, I am back from winter break. I had a great time with the kids all week and I'm sure I'll be sharing some of our ...

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